When you are starting a new career in a technical domain, apprenticeship plays a very crucial role and a lot of employers give special emphasis to the trainee with apprenticeship at premium organizations. An apprenticeship is a great way to enter into any domain at the entry stage. Most of the organizations compensate you for the time and labor and the end of the program you will graduate with a industry recognizable qualification. However, most of the fresh graduates still face with a basic question of how to get the apprenticeship.
Today, in this article we will discuss on how one can easily get an apprenticeship with any organizations.
How the system works:
Apprenticeship program in any organization will be run by a dedicated department under the human resources and they will be responsible for issuing the advertisement and recruiting the talent. Most of the organizations work directly with the universities and the placement committees while a few will advertise in job or media portals.
In some organizations the program will be run by individual departments in close coordination with the human resource department.
How to get an apprenticeship?
If you are interested in attaining an apprenticeship at reputed organization then you ought to start preparing for the same by second or third year of your program. Every organization has different requirements for giving apprenticeship some may put emphasis on the grade points while a few put emphasis on technical projects. Few organizations will have a dedicated entrance examination for the same and will usally refer it as ‘Graduate Engineer Trainee’ or ‘Management Trainee’ or ‘Graduate Trainee’.
Before starting the search for right apprenticeship program, one should list down the targeted roles and areas of interest and reach out to the companies HR department or the Talent department for possible programs. One should also look for the advertisement or job portals for the annoucements. Government organizations and federal companies across the world will announce their apprenticeship program through official release either in a national newspaper or job board.
Few organizations, recruit apprentice through internal referral system and the students can reach out to the academic adviser or the college placement committee for the referrals. One can also reach out to the individuals in the targetted company for active referrals for getting apprenticeship.
Contacting the employers directly
Few companies won’t have a system for apprenticeship however, one can reach out to them directly with a request. One should also built up a strong portfolio of technical projects and referral letters along with a compelling statement of your interest to work under the organization.
Apprenticeship to full time Job
Organizations with a full time scheme or system for apprenticeship will assess your competence for the full time job based on various parameters. Few organizations will have weekly tests and final examination while few others will ask you to build a minimum viable product. Besides this recommendation from your supervisor and the peer will also plays a crucial factor in attaining the final job.
Final Word
CETMATRIX career solutions has a dedicated system for apprenticeship. We connect students and young professionals with thousands of apprenticeship jobs across the world